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The Post Office was the first to push us regulair citizens in the USA to use the two letter abreveations but computers were the cause. To enter adresses into a data base there had to be a standard. Back in the day, memory was expensive and computers were dumber than they are now. If they went with 3 letters, to let California remain CAL the the stupid machines could not tell _NY from NY_ If we had stayed with 3 letters the machines of the time still would have confused Cal and CAL. To a machine small and large case letters are compleatly different things. <br /> <br />I would not even have thought of any of that but my 25 year old step daughter just asked why wasn't there any video of her as a baby. I wonder what everyday item her kids will be asking about in 25 years.
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